Wednesday, September 23, 2015

Let's hope you weren't riding Metro to Petworth last night, as Metro experienced a huge problem. Power went out on the train about 6 pm, stranding it a few hundred feet from the Georgia Avenue-Petworth station, with about 250 people stuck inside, though NBC4 reports that it was more like 500-600 people. Emergency personnel did not arrive for more than an hour, maybe up to 2.5 hours according to Petworth News, and in that time some people self-evacuated by walking away.

The Post has a short article, but leaves out to me what are the damning details. On TV last night, people reported a pregnant woman relieving herself into a plastic bag on the train while shielded by other passengers, and very hot temperatures. Thankfully there were no major injuries. NBC4 has a much more thorough article than the Post.

Metro is not sure what happened, and is investigating. Power came back on around 11 pm. Petworth News has a ton of photos of the aftermath.

It's also crazy that this happened while the Pope was in town, surely one of the worst commute times in recent memory.